The difference our Partnership is making

In June 2022 the Partnership launched a new website that provides consistent, accurate and trustworthy healthcare advice to parents, carers, young people and professionals.

Reaching offline audiences with information about how GP practices continued to see patients was a way to help people access the right service for their needs.

Carers Week is an annual campaign to raise awareness of caring, highlighting the challenges unpaid carers face and recognising the valuable contribution they make to families and communities.

To mark Carers Week, the Partnership and Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust teamed up to raise vital awareness of the ‘Message in a Bottle’ initiative to unpaid carers.

Yorkshire Ambulance Service's community engagement team provides training on life-saving skills and helps people understand how and when to use their services.

Calderdale Cares Partnership requested assistance from Voluntary Action Calderdale and the community and voluntary sector to communicate important winter messages to target groups during the winter of 2021/22.

Bradford District and Craven Health and Care Partnership created a handy booklet called ‘If your child is poorly’ developed with the input of specialist paediatric clinicians to support local families.

A Working Carer’s Passport is a record that can be printed or stored electronically. It identifies the carer and sets out an offer of support, services or other benefits.

In West Yorkshire and Harrogate, around 3,000 people a year have a stroke with two thirds of stroke survivors left with some form of physical, mental or emotional disability – often completely life changing.

Thousands of people living with diabetes across West Yorkshire are using pioneering new technology available via the NHS to test for chronic kidney disease at home.

The Partnership’s Children, Young People (CYP) and Families Programme is working with the West Yorkshire wide CYP Epilepsy Group to improve the care journey of children and young people with epilepsy.

The Partnership’s Personalised Care Programme secured funding from NHS England to deliver an online training programme with follow-up support for its health and care workforce, volunteers and link workers.

As we celebrate International Day of the Midwife 2022, we take a look back at last year’s event. We wanted to give #IDM2021 the recognition it deserved, and raise the profile of the great work undertaken each and every day by the maternity workforce.

Leadership Fellow Caroline joined us for six months from secondment in her role as Lead Pharmacist at Leeds and Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

We appointed John in support of our diverse leadership ambition as part of the Partnership’s The Fellowship.